NBC News' Facebook account is posting 'spoilers' on the swimming events and who won. The network that is delaying the Olympic coverage is also reporting the results before they air the competitions! I'm laughing at the confused people right now.

"Why are you telling us the results of the events you haven't even shown yet!"

I am loving the "World Feed" channels online through ctvolympics.ca. They are just the raw audio/video feeds from London, with no commentators, no commercials, no stat overlays, no shots of parents, but plenty of replays and nothing is skipped.

They have a feed like this for each event, or you can watch the TSN/CTV/Sportsnet channels with feature all the commentary and studio-desk shots for the regular experience.

It's a shame NBC doesn't offer this online. I get the reason for the prime-time replay, but you should still be able to watch any event live, even if just online.

I know all the results for today, from following twitter and I wont mention any here, but that is still retarded that I dont. It's a live sporting event. Its not like me being a dick and giving away the ending of the dark knight.

Also quite a bit of their live daytime coverage isn't live, it's delayed by an hour or more. And they refuse to budge from their set programming. Like yesterday when there was the big brouhaha in women's fencing, any sane person would say that's worth cutting to in order to see what's up. NBC? No.

I saw a movie called Head Office (it was on HBO and HBO Go all month) where Judge Reinhold plays a senator's son who gets a job at a major corporation as a PR guy. He gets stoned on the way to make a comment to the media, defending his company's decision to close a plant in a small town. Instead of the usual bullshiat, he's honest about things, explaining that companies do what's best for their own bottom line. He's hailed as a hero in the press.

I was in Glasgow and London for a few events (surprisingly not as chaotic as I would have thought) and preferred the BBC coverage on TV wherever possible. All the pubs were tuned to the BBC as well. No problems whatsoever. Seriously, that's how Olympic coverage should be done.

I'm watching the NBC live feed and saving some of the other events like gymnastics and swimming for the taped feed since I know the wife will want to watch them. My main complaints have been the opening ceremony was farked by NBC. Matt Lauer's constant and sometimes disrespectful commentary distracted from the actual ceremony, skipping the 7/7 tribute for an interview with Phelps, and cutting out a lot of the live music stuff was just unacceptable. NBC had to know with as fast as information travels these days that their delay was going to mean spoilers for a lot of people. Also I wish they would show more variation of evens in prime time and during the day. Watching the online feed today I saw kick ass canoeing, judo, fencing that looked like it took place in Tron, and weightlifting. On t.v. through their whole series of networks NBC brought us swimming, swimming, swimming, gymnastics, swimming, gymnastics, beach volleyball, archery. How about showing some other events once in awhile?

WhyteRaven74:Also quite a bit of their live daytime coverage isn't live, it's delayed by an hour or more. And they refuse to budge from their set programming. Like yesterday when there was the big brouhaha in women's fencing, any sane person would say that's worth cutting to in order to see what's up. NBC? No.

Wow, that's amazing. Not an Olympics fan... but that does suck. I've noticed very little "cutting in".

CBS does a great job for the NCAA basketball first/second round. Their producers must have the biggest headache after that weekend. Especially before they had cable partners and it was all on one station. And *to boot* it was different in every single market.

WhyteRaven74:Also quite a bit of their live daytime coverage isn't live, it's delayed by an hour or more. And they refuse to budge from their set programming. Like yesterday when there was the big brouhaha in women's fencing, any sane person would say that's worth cutting to in order to see what's up. NBC? No.

wow, see I didn't even know that happened. That sucks for the South Korean. You would think they would have contingency plans for something like that.

How about monday night when they came on the 6PM news and announced the results of the Mens 400M Individual Medley. It was so stunning they had to just let everyone know about it right away. Then they had the nerve to say "If you want to actually watch it, it's coming up next." What a bunch of tards.

ModernPrimitive01:. You would think they would have contingency plans for something like that.

You would think so.

downstairs:Wow, that's amazing. Not an Olympics fan... but that does suck. I've noticed very little "cutting in".

Also during the swimming coverage in prime time yesterday one swimmer pulled out of a race and they're saying they have no idea why they scratched. Apparently not knowing an athlete or coach has to tell the officials they're pulling out of a race and thus the officials know. I've watched tons of track over the years, seen quite a few people pull out and in just about every case they can tell you why they pulled out, even if it's something completely unforeseen at the last minute. And I had a feeling the swimmer pulling out wasn't something that happened ten minutes before the race.

Can the announcers SHUT THE FARK UP for 2 seconds when something's happening? I swear, someone at NBC told them, "No dead air. Ever."

Blahbblahblahblahblah....when it's the last 50m and she's fighting for gold, nobody gives a shiat about the fact that she grew up in Bumfark and she had to overcome an extruded vagina and everybody at the general store is rooting for her Call the event, don't just fill in when you don't have something to say.

Do the needful:How about monday night when they came on the 6PM news and announced the results of the Mens 400M Individual Medley. It was so stunning they had to just let everyone know about it right away. Then they had the nerve to say "If you want to actually watch it, it's coming up next." What a bunch of tards.

Wow.

At least PTI (the only sports show I watched)... started yesterdays show *very* loudly announcing "Ok, we're going to talk about something that happened in the olympics, that you may or may not have seen. If you're watching on delay, turn away now!!"

WhyteRaven74:Also during the swimming coverage in prime time yesterday one swimmer pulled out of a race and they're saying they have no idea why they scratched. Apparently not knowing an athlete or coach has to tell the officials they're pulling out of a race and thus the officials know. I've watched tons of track over the years, seen quite a few people pull out and in just about every case they can tell you why they pulled out, even if it's something completely unforeseen at the last minute. And I had a feeling the swimmer pulling out wasn't something that happened ten minutes before the race.

Ever seen NASCAR on TNT? You'll hear the following two things 100 times in a race:

"It appears as if something has happened."

"Woah! The 13 car spins.... ummm.... who drives the 13?"

"While we were away at break.... (insert something big that happened)"

12349876:I like the BBC coverage just as much as everyone else, but it's not happening here unless PBS can outbid everyone else.

It would be kind of awesome to see the federal government throw PBS a billion or so (a drop in the bucket for the Fed) and say "Get the Olympics and go wild. The only requirement is do you best to provide universal access."

Universal access being over the air programming, online streaming, and apps for the major phone operating systems. The stupid shiat with this Olympics is that by 7 pm Eastern, the British are all going to bed and the Olympics are over. So you can show everything live and then run a SportsCenter type thing in Primetime. Everyone wins.

ha-ha-guy:12349876: I like the BBC coverage just as much as everyone else, but it's not happening here unless PBS can outbid everyone else.

It would be kind of awesome to see the federal government throw PBS a billion or so (a drop in the bucket for the Fed) and say "Get the Olympics and go wild. The only requirement is do you best to provide universal access."

Universal access being over the air programming, online streaming, and apps for the major phone operating systems. The stupid shiat with this Olympics is that by 7 pm Eastern, the British are all going to bed and the Olympics are over. So you can show everything live and then run a SportsCenter type thing in Primetime. Everyone wins.

Problem: The Federal Reserve and the federal government are mutually exclusive, as 'The Fed' is private.

Shostie:oldernell: I watched a little during the day, and even tried to watch at night. Five minutes at night and I am analyzed and up close and personal wiped out, and turn it off. It seems the commentators get more air time than the participants. Could be the worst coverage ever.

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Incidentally, ALSO by NBC.

You're nuts. If you had the benefit of uh, getting it free, it was the best US coverage ever by a mile. Full events, No commentary or BBC commentary and no hosts or fluff pieces (They saved those for the network).

/Buy some magical alignment of the stars and life circumstances, we happen to have Comcast, so I've got three channels and internet streaming of the events.//CNN has been spoiling the SHIAT out of NBC, too, so there's that.

Reading the whining from people complaining "Thanks for ruining it for me CNN" on CNN's FB feed. CNN is putting "Olympic Result:" on their news alerts but people are not just asking them to stop posting the results but to stop BROADCASTING the results on their network! Seriously, how moronic do you have to be to demand a news company stop broadcasting the news?

The problem is they don't show certain big event during their "live coverage" and instead show smaller sports so they can replay the big event at night during prime time. NBC was showing the Olympics all day today they didn't how swimming or gymnastics on tv though.

Thank god I'm in Canada for this olympics and don't have to deal with NBC

NBC's problem is that they are utterly unable to reconcile the idea of a tape delay with the need to be first to break news to people. If you are trying to have any drama in your broadcast at all, you can't go around spoiling the ending for people first.

Carth:The problem is they don't show certain big event during their "live coverage" and instead show smaller sports so they can replay the big event at night during prime time. NBC was showing the Olympics all day today they didn't how swimming or gymnastics on tv though.

As someone who's sick and tired of beach volleyball, swimming, and gymnastics, I rather enjoy that they don't show these during the day.

Shostie:oldernell: I watched a little during the day, and even tried to watch at night. Five minutes at night and I am analyzed and up close and personal wiped out, and turn it off. It seems the commentators get more air time than the participants. Could be the worst coverage ever.

To any Americans out there dissatisfied with NBC's coverage, or just wanting to watch the games online without having to farking sign in, I have the solution. Install Expat Shield(which assigns you a UK IP address), and watch everything for free on BBC.com.